Rank: Senior Sergeant military Branch: Artillery Division: 5th artillery Kalinkovichi red banner division breakthrough Berezin Konstantin Yakovlevich was born in 1911 in the city of Pavlovo-Posad, Moscow region. The family already had an eldest daughter, Lydia, son Sergey and daughter Zinaida, followed by another daughter, Olimpiada. Konstantin grew up, studied, and served in the army. After the army, he worked at a weaving factory, got married, and in 1938 they had a son, Vladimir. When the war began, Konstantin was called up by the Pavlovo-Posadsky RVC of the Moscow region and sent to the front on June 24, 1941. The older brother also went to the front, and the mother with her daughters and the pregnant wife of Konstantin with their son remained in the city. On October 23, 1941, Konstantin received news of the birth of his daughter Tatiana. Konstantin participated in the great Patriotic war in the active army from June 24, 1941 to March 23, 1945. In 1943, he fought on the 1st Belorussian front in the 697 light artillery regiment, 16 light artillery brigade, 5 artillery division of The reserve of the Main Command. 8 July 1943 by the order of the division №07/ n, for exemplary performance of command assignments at the front against the German invaders and displaying valor and courage of the assistant commander of the platoon control Sergeant, Berezin K. Y. was awarded with the medal " For Courage ",for 05-07 July 1943 showed himself brave, courageous, fearless defender of his Motherland. Being all the time at the command post Berezin K. Ya. clearly monitored the actions of the enemy, its accumulation, promptly reported to the commander, skillfully organized the defense of the CP, when surrounded, he personally destroyed up to 20 Nazis, breaking through the ring, he brought out his scouts from the encirclement. He fought on the Western front 3 section, on the Bryansk front 3 section, Central and 1 Belorussian front 3 section. In 1944, he fought on the 1st Belorussian front in the 276th guards light artillery order of Lenin red banner regiment 23rd guards light artillery order of Lenin brigade 5 artillery Kalinkovichi red banner division breakthrough 4 artillery red banner corps division. During his time as head of the food and feed warehouse, K. Y. Berezin, despite being overloaded with work, delivered food to the regiment's personnel working in the main positions on time and on time, despite the enemy's artillery and mortar fire. On the night of October 11, 1944, the enemy conducted a fierce bombardment of the town "Struga" in the Warsaw Voivodeship, where the regiment's rear was located. From the explosion of shells burned cars and exploded shells stacked in stacks, but Berezin did not leave the warehouse took measures to save food and property. He was seriously wounded by an enemy shell and carried out of the firing zone. By order of the division No. 38/ n of 01. 11. 1944 of the guards, senior Sergeant Berezin K. Ya. was awarded the Order of the red Star. He was also awarded the Order of the great Patriotic war, 1st class, and other medals. From the local evacuation point ( MEP ) 90 Berezin was sent to the evacuation hospital No. 54, where the Yessentuki VTEC was declared unfit for further military service. The hospitals of the Nzrkom Zdrava RSFSR in the North Caucasus were subordinate to MEP 11, 90, 94, 104. The most powerful hospital base in the North Caucasus and the North Caucasus region was MEP 90-107 hospitals. The base was based on 4 resorts Kavminvod group Kislovodsk, Essentuki, Pyatigorsk and Zheleznovodsk with a total number of hospitals-57. After the war, Berezin worked at the Pavlovo-Posadsky worsted plant as the head of the electrical Department, additionally taught students the section electricity in physics, and was also a youth trainee at the plant. He has a lot of rationalization proposals for the modernization of production and copyright certificates for inventions, he was awarded diplomas, badges of the winner of competitions, excellent production, the best innovator and was encouraged by prizes. On the plot of land, he and his family grew vegetables, fruits, and flowers. He died on August 5, 1997. He has two grandsons Roman and Denis, a granddaughter Anna, a great-grandson Zakhar, and great-granddaughters Kristina, Maria, Victoria, and Elizabeth. We are proud of him, remember him and will keep his memory in the future.